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ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?

Phoronix: ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?

It's been nearly seven months since I wrote my first article about ATI drivers and how they literally crippled my computer and my daily life. Last month, ATI had finally released their latest drivers which contains the new OpenGL component and AIGLX support. Was this release worth the amount of hype and did it solve everyone's problems? For me, simply, no. After seven months of waiting, updating, and struggling, things are not good for me, in every possible feature of the ATI Linux driver I use.

Maybe it is time to stop waiting for better drivers and start waiting for 3d specifications even though that would mean waiting one more year until stable 3d driver that would work out of box in all distributions.

well i can agree with everything except powerusage for my hd 2900 XT, it doesnt seem to run at 100% all the time, but this is not the case on the x850 XT PE for sure, it goes on 100% all the time.

but i dunno hows the 2900 XT goes, if its on 100% or not .

performance is godlike though, my aiglx issues are small, but still annoying, my videoplayback issue is a very annoying issue, but they have certanly done something, and the 8.43.xxx may bring some hope.

well i can agree with everything except powerusage for my hd 2900 XT, it doesnt seem to run at 100% all the time, but this is not the case on the x850 XT PE for sure, it goes on 100% all the time.

but i dunno hows the 2900 XT goes, if its on 100% or not .

performance is godlike though, my aiglx issues are small, but still annoying, my videoplayback issue is a very annoying issue, but they have certanly done something, and the 8.43.xxx may bring some hope.

I hope you're right, 8.43 should be mostly a big bugfix release. Or at least we hope so. About your 100% load thing, I think you're right, because with my x1600XT, if I touch the heatsink while running Linux it feels hotter than normal. But I tried it in Windows for a test and it was nearly ice cold. The card is a pretty good overclocker too. It can go from 590/690 to 700/760 or in other words, 700/1520.

Granted, I can bring it a little higher but I don't like pushing it to the absolute limits. It still doesn't get as hot in Windows as it does in Linux. I wish the x1600XT had a temperature sensor on it and wish they had a temperature reader in the CCC for Linux.